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This week, Rayna Neises, your host, talks with Tracy Crump.  Tracy is an author and regular contributor to many well-known publications. She is best known for her input of more than 30 stories to Chicken Soup for the Soul.  As a former nurse and family caregiver for both her parents, she uses her experience to encourage others who are in a season of caring to be advocates for their loved ones:

• You do not have to be a nurse to do your research, and you do not have to be a social worker to speak up.
•  As caregivers, we know our loved ones better than anyone else.
• It is important to stay with your loved ones while they are in the hospital.
• Utilize medication lists and have a copy available.
• Take notes so as not to have to rely on your memory.
• Each team member has a different strength that they bring to the table to help make our loved one’s life better.
• Find her book, “Health, Healing and Wholeness: Devotions of Hope in the Midst of Illness,” her other writings, and connect with Tracy through her site at www.TracyCrump.com.